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Exit
The Endings That Set Us Free

Sarah Crichton Books
From a renowned sociologist, the wisdom of saying goodbye Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is enthralled by exits: long farewells, quick goodbyes, sudden endings,...
  
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Poser
My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses

Picador
National Bestseller Ten years ago, Claire Dederer put her back out while breastfeeding her baby daughter. Told to try yoga by everyone from the woman...
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On Balance

Picador
Every day, we are told that balance is a good thing. We are supposed to make balanced judgments, balance our budget, and preserve a balance of power in our...
  
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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 2011A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleOne of The Economist’s 2011 Books...
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Bad Science
Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

Faber and Faber, Inc.
Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story touting the benefits of daily alcohol...
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The Philosophical Baby
What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life

Picador
In the last decade there has been a revolution in our understanding of the minds of infants and young children. We used to believe that babies were irrational,...
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Yoga Mala
The Original Teachings of Ashtanga Yoga Master Sri K. Pattabhi Jois

North Point Press
The seminal treatise and guide to Ashtanga yoga by the master of this increasingly popular discipline One of the great yoga figures of our time, Sri K....
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Blue Peninsula
Essential Words for a Life of Loss and Change

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"My son's illness is eight years old and has no name. It started when he was fourteen. He is now twenty-two. It is taking away his ability to walk and to...
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Rethinking Thin
The New Science of Weight Loss---and the Myths and Realities of Dieting

Picador
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In this eye-opening report, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata shows that our society's obsession with...
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Embryo Culture
Making Babies in the Twenty-first Century

Sarah Crichton Books
“Injections + Appointments + Egg Retrieval + Embryo Transfer = Resources (Energy x Time x Emotion)” That’s the equation that was projected onto the screen...
  

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What to Eat

North Point Press
Since its publication in hardcover last year, Marion Nestle’s What to Eat has become the definitive guide to making healthy and informed choices about food....
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Lost in the Cosmos
The Last Self-Help Book

Picador
Walker Percy's mordantly funny and wholly original contribution to the self-help book craze deals with the Western mind's tendency toward heavy abstraction....
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The Wisdom of Psychopaths
What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

A Scientific American Book
In this groundbreaking adventure into the worlds of psychopaths, the renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton argues that there is a fine line between a brilliant...
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An American Checkup

Picador
Includes a New Afterword A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice When hard-living, middle-aged American writer James McManus gets a three-day...
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